Battle of Plani

The Battle of Plani was fought in 1916 during the Eastern Front campaign of World War I. The Russian and Romanian forces recaptured the Latvian town of Plani from the Germans and their allies, recapturing a portion of the German Wall.

The Imperial Russian Army and a Romanian contingent launched an offensive against the German, Bulgarian, and Austro-Hungarian troops defending a section of the German Wall at Plani in Semigallia, attacking the Central Powers forces at a clearing in the Baltic woods. The Russians pushed their attack and succeeded in capturing the German Wall before advancing further behind the German lines, pushing the Central forces back as they went; they braved numerous chemical gas attacks and forced the Central forces to retreat. The Russian victory at Plani was a brief respite from a series of Central victories over Russian forces that year.